American Association of Political Consultants

And my guests, I have a couple of great folks.

I've got Justin Germany, who is the founder of Outlaw Media, and Julie Sweet, who's the director of advocacy in industry relations at the American Association of Political Consultants.

So I've known Justin for a number of years, back when I... um was managing campaigns uh we had worked on a campaign together and justin is the founder of outlaw media he's a veteran political ad maker with more than two decades of experience he worked on bush cheney's 2004 campaign and directed online media for john mccain's 2008 presidential campaign We'll look at his coin and Trump account commercials that he used AI.

Actually, his one ad was the first fully AI developed ad ever.

How do we do disclaimers for television ads? How do we do How do we make sure that the models allow for political professionals to actually use them? We get into that.

It's really fascinating.

But as I said, she's the Director of Advocacy and Industry Relations at the American Association of Political Consultants.

That's the organization that represents people like myself and others who work in this sphere she brings two decades of campaign and advocacy experience and works with policy makers technology companies and political professionals on ai data privacy and political free speech so the first thing that we're going to get into uh is on the adoption of this one of the things that the aapc has done and i really commend julie she's done research year to year 2025 to 2026 on AI adoption.